Kids Excel in Self-Esteem
Patriot Post Brief

A blog reader forwarded the following article, adding a comment: “The item I’m sending struck me as applicable to certain dysfunctional elected officials as well as students. Nobody beats them on self-esteem.”

From the Patriot Post, Dec. 17, 2007, printed in the L.A. Times:

We could focus on the latest worrisome news in education: the results of an international test released last week indicating 15-year-old Americans don’t know much about science, and they’re falling behind their peers in other industrialized nations.

But why get depressed? There’s an aluminum-foil lining. The test also found that our teens don’t let their ignorance bother them. They may not know as much as students in Finland, Canada or New Zealand, but they think they do. When asked to rate their own scientific abilities, they put themselves at the top of the list.

This is the real trend in American education. No one can match us when it comes to self-esteem.